The evaluation of Chinese and English speech abilities, automatic correction of English essays, and quick photo-based question search...At the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (hereinafter referred to as the Trade Fair) launched on September 5th, many educational technology products made an appearance, not only allowing the public to experience the futuristic "educational black technology," but also quietlytransforming the study methods and habits of contemporary students.

As a leading domestic technology education enterprise, TAL Education Group exhibited multiple science and education products such as“Chinese learning system for AI teachers in Xuesheisi Online School” and “oral calculation in elementary school” as well as multiple AI application solutions such as "Evaluation of Chinese and English oral expression abilities," "Mental arithmetic correction solutions," and "GodEye online classroom teaching evaluation AI solutions," which attracted the attention of the participants.

Teaching quality as the foundation, unleashing the "multiplicative effect" of technology on education

For many parents, how to improve their children's "speaking ability" has become a difficult problem. Children often “dare not speak and do not know how to speak” in public places, and they are often at a loss on how to organize their language and express their ideas during speeches. The accent is often not standard when speaking, which makes the child fall into a more unconfident predicament.

In order to solve the parents' worries and stimulate their children's learning motivation, TAL Education Group developed the "Chinese speech ability assessment" technology, based on children's speech recognition technology and multi-dimensional oral expression evaluation algorithm, which can comprehensively evaluate students' oral expression abilities, provide scores and comprehensive assessments for each dimension, and realize functions such as oral entrance exams, classroom speech evaluations, and oral practice corrections. This helps children understand their level of oral expression abilities and provides scores and comments for improvement, guiding children in targeted training and improvement.

Guests experiencing the "Chinese speech ability assessment"

Within the Xueersi Online School under TAL Education Group, the "Chinese speech ability assessment" serves as an auxiliary function for classroom "oral questions" and "classroom Q&A," and has gained recognition from teachers, students, and parents in various subjects. The integration of AI technology into teaching and research is based on Xueersi Online School's insistence on the essence of education. Xueersi Online School believes that the essence of online education is still education, which needs to start from the practical needs of children and parents. AI technology can only exert a "multiplicative effect"when it is better integrated with educational scenarios. Ensuring high-quality teaching and proper teacher training is the core to safeguarding user value.

Last year, TAL Education Group was approved as a national new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform construction enterprise. While empowering internal parents and students, TAL Education Group hopes to actively promote the open sharing of AI capabilities in the entire industry. Relying on many years of experience in the education industry and a large amount of industry data, TAL Education Group has been deeply cultivating AI technology innovation in the education field and continuously increasing its investment in science and technology, and has generated more than 400 patents so far.

Promoting inclusive education to make education "equitable and of quality"

Zhaojue County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is one of the deeply impoverished areas in China's "Three Zones and Three Prefectures." The rate of Mandarin proficiency in the local area is very low, and most children can only speak the Yi language. In the case of a shortage of teaching staff and teachers with non-standard Mandarin pronunciation, being fluent in Mandarin is not only an opportunity to change the fate of local students, but also an important way to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

As a representative of "education + the internet" enterprise, Xueersi Online School hopes to use technology to help these children "get out of the mountains." The "AI Teacher Chinese Learning System" exhibited at this conference integrates advanced AI technologies such as expression recognition, speech recognition and testing, and OCR image recognition. It can not only intelligently assess and correct children's pronunciation in real time but also offers teaching in areas such as Pinyin, vocabulary, and grammar, allowing each child to have a dedicated AI Chinese teacher.

In addition, the "AI Teacher Chinese Learning System" has also developed multiple national language versions, which are applied in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative, helping Chinese culture to go global.

Xueersi Online School's "AI Teacher Chinese Learning System" attracted many guests to experience it

Expanding the coverage of high-quality educational resources through technology has always been the direction of exploration for TAL Education Group. Developing "more equitable, high-quality education" is also the social responsibility that TAL Education Group has never changed from the beginning to the end. At the same time, TAL Education Group also hopes to work with the industry to make high-quality education resources available to more areas.

In 2017, New Oriental and TAL Education Group jointly established the "Fond of Distant Mountains Public Welfare Foundation," bringing together education enterprises such as Yucai Education, Uncle Kay Storytelling, BoxFi Education, Elite Education, and Shangde to make the classrooms of more and more schools in poverty-stricken areas high-quality, light-loaded, high-efficiency, and personalized by means of education science and technology.

How to not forget the original intention of education and allow technology to empower education better is the core issue that every educational enterprise is concerned about. TAL Education Group hopes to return to the essence of education, transmit high-quality educational resources to more Chinese students and parents through the internet, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, and work with the education industry to jointly promote the deep integration of education and technology, providing higher quality and more diverse educational services, and continuously driving the balanced development of education with technology.